Good Evening, Happy Editors.
I have just installed a new audio monitoring system and tested the audio/video sync with a pop on the audio and a flash on my external picture monitor.
The picture monitor is fed by a Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme card, and the audio monitoring comes out of the Mac via USB and through a Digidesign M Box 2 Mini.
I am finding that the sound now lags by 3 frames.
Is there any way of fine tuning the video output from FCP (v.6.0.6)? I have messed around with SYSTEM SETTINGS > PLAYBACK CONTROL > FRAME OFFSET which defaults to 4 frames. But even if I enter a crazy 30 frame offset in this FCP box, there is no difference. So perhaps "Playback Control - Frame offset" is not what I should be playing with.
Other than editing everything out of sync in the TIMELINE and then pulling it all into sync at the end of the edit, does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might DELAY PICTURE by about 3 frames so that is in sync when I am editing? Then I could remove that offset at final EXPORT. I would prefer to find some global solution rather than be editing out of sync in the Timeline.
Any thoughts welcome,
Many thanks,
Harry.